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Border City Medicine: Windsor’s History of Innovative Health Practice

The inaugural presentation in the Medical Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (MASSH) Lecture Series at the University of Windsor proposes an "international" local history of medical practice and underlines the way that the Border Cities served as a self-conscious laboratory for innovations in medical insurance, nursing education and public health over the course of the 20th century. Steven Palmer and Steve Malone

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• Virtual patients, wicked-cool interactive timelines, vintage artificial eyes, and more! The Science Museum (UK) has launched an extraordinary website intended for undergraduate students and educators, Brought to Life: Exploring the History of Medicine #
• From tobacco to plague, from climate change to mental health, the WHO Global Health Histories seminar series has 9 sessions lined up for 2010, kicking off 17 February with George Bishop and Cathy Roth on SARS #
• "Wash Germs Away" - the history of hand washing and a nice variety of other online exhibits from the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library at the University of Virginia #
• "Moments in Medicine" hits Episode 10 mark: a lively series of history of medicine podcasts from Oxford Brookes University's Centre for Health, Medicine and Society #
• Download the breathtaking catalogue of the current exhibition at the CDC's Global Health Odyssey Museum, "An Iconography of Contagion: 20th-Century Health Posters", and check out upcoming exhibitions and on-line public health games for schoolkids while you're at it #
• Nueva publicación on-line en historia e humanidades médicas de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Revista de la Historia de la Medicina y Epistemología Médica #
• An absorbing and rich (including oral history and pristine photographs) repository on Nursing Education in Nova Scotia, from 1890s to the present, by Christine Lovelace, Stephanie Walker, Amy Nickerson and Ewa Piorko, in assocation with Mount Saint Vincent University Archives #
• Check out former US Secretary of Labor Robert Reich's realpolitik blog-take on the history of presidential health care reform in the US, and what it says about Obama's approach and chances #
• Peruse the new special issue of Health and History on the Australian asylum #
• A video on how to make an anatomical wax model with artist, Eleanor Crook, part of the new Wellcome Museum exhibit, Exquisite Bodies, on the many uses of anatomical models in the 19th c. #
• Social Medicine/Medicina Social - Explore the new issue of this ambitious four-year-old, bilingual journal with great historical awareness/Disfrute el nuevo número de esta ambiciosa revista bilingue, con buena conciencia histórica, que ya tiene cuatro años de vida #
• Rio de Janeiro calling! A new tri-lingual on-line journal, with an interest in "the forms of knowledge and sciences that have sexuality as their object, with emphasis on the role of public and collective health in research and in public policy development," issues a call for papers. Check out the inaugural issue: Sexualidade, Saúde e Sociedade/Sexualidad, Salud y Sociedad/Sexuality, Health and Society #